Literacy is about...

• Handling books carefully
• Sharing stories
• Singing rhymes and songs
• 'Reading' the snack labels to find out what is for snack today.
•   Linking sounds and letters.
•   Giving meanings to marks as they draw and paint.
• Literacy development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
• Literacy is about....